Word: adorning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of choosing suitable royalty to adorn the frontispiece has become even more difficult. After 166 years of continuous publishing the editors decorated the flyleaf of the 1929 volume with the likeness of Amanullah of Afghanistan. Scarcely had the presses stopped rolling than Amanullah abdicated, fled his country, became the scandal of European chancellories...
...general, the surplusage and consequent confusion of our great . . . art museums is a matter of daily and just comment. Moreover, the prevalent jumboism encourages capricious, ill advised exhibition . . . to adorn . . . great spaces. . . . When I first saw the Pennsylvania Museum, it contained the queerest hall I ever visited. . . . The hall of small personal bequests . . . filled with small showcases of ... uniform size each containing the artistic remains of some patrician lady of Philadelphia ... a cashmere shawl or a Spanish mantilla ... a pooi filigree box from Genoa, a bad Indian bronze or two..a few mediocre miniatures ... an enameled snuffbox of doubtful period...
...recent editorial attack the Harvard Crimson on the mural paintings by John Singer Sargent which adorn the walls of the Widener Memorial Library is just a "foolish, boyish article", and official Harvard intends to ignore...
...Smith fought McAdoo and Alabama 103 times cast 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood, till John William Davis and Bryan the Lesser were boosted to the limelight? Or that second convention in Cleveland to which the Senator from Wisconsin, who in Jo Davidson's mass marble will soon adorn the Capitol's hall of fame, sent his ready-made platform and took Burton K. Wheeler for his running mate...
...Cadillac-La Salle-Fisher-Fleetwood clientele have always been gourmets of the gasoline world. But these latest models require the very pink of passengerhood. Only the jolliest, most debonair of present-day gallants could fittingly adorn the La Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier. Students of the Hals painting have provided it with hood and cowl of Wissahickon green; lower body, fenders and gear of deep maroon; wire wheels, rear deck and body above moulding of Talina brown; roof and rear quarters of tan Burbank silk mohair; mouldings of gold leaf...